Resurrection: The Struggle for a New RussiaResurrection plunges the reader directly into the thick of events so that one all but feels Yeltsin's breath upon one's face - he is drunk one day, in command the next, as volatile as the fragmented country he tries to lead. Remnick's new Russia springs to life through vivid portraits of its players: the half-Jewish anti-Semite Zhirinovsky, "a hater, a crank, a nut"; the young (and purged) economist Yegor Gaidar, champion of "shock therapy" and market reform; Vladimir Gusinsky, Russia's Citizen Kane ("a first-generation capitalist living in a jungle world with few rules or restraints"); Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who returned from a twenty-year exile to find a country freed from communism but still steeped in misery - and nostalgia. These portraits emerge against a background dominated by the war in Chechnya, which Remnick visits in a bloody and unforgettable chapter, and a Moscow in turbulent transition. |
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Page 93
... television tantalize and taunt . " Television will be different , " he promised . " We shall ban all commercials . They will be allowed only in newspapers . There will be no sneakers , no chewing gum , no beaches . We have eight months ...
... television tantalize and taunt . " Television will be different , " he promised . " We shall ban all commercials . They will be allowed only in newspapers . There will be no sneakers , no chewing gum , no beaches . We have eight months ...
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... television , " which reaches all of Russia . There were other stations with less range ; the most important and independent , by far , was NTV . The editorial idea for NTV came from Igor Malashenko , a clever man in his forties who had ...
... television , " which reaches all of Russia . There were other stations with less range ; the most important and independent , by far , was NTV . The editorial idea for NTV came from Igor Malashenko , a clever man in his forties who had ...
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... Television Policy , talking about those differences . Vilchek was not a young man he was in his six- ties , old enough to remember the early development of Soviet television as a propaganda tool . And he had traveled enough to know how ...
... Television Policy , talking about those differences . Vilchek was not a young man he was in his six- ties , old enough to remember the early development of Soviet television as a propaganda tool . And he had traveled enough to know how ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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